25% of the Earths surface is green with vegetation. The NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite detects the fine differences in vegetation across the planet and has delivered some of the highest detailed data to date.
3.1.3 Video: Vietnam: deforestation and climate change | Global 3000
Vietnam is one of the world's leading exporters of shrimps. But the industry is exacting a high price. Mangrove forests have been systematically chopped down to make way for more shrimp farms, particularly in the Mekong Delta.
3.2 Climate Change and Water Resources: Responses and Adaptation
3.2.1 Water Resources: Responses and Adaptation
3.3 Principles and Practice in Climate Vulnerability Assessment
This is a useful decision-making tool for site managers of coastal shorebird habitat. In spreadsheet format, it guides managers through a series of exercises to assess both the vulnerability and the value of habitat that supports shorebirds. Then, strategies are developed to address the stressors of greatest concern on those habitats. Watch the video to get a brief overview of the tool, and hear from a refuge manager and a biologist who have used it to great benefit.
3.4 Dealing with Uncertainties in Climate Change
3.4.1 Dealing with Uncertainties in Climate Change
3.4.2 Video: How it All Ends
This video by wonderingminds42 is a good treatment of risk assessment with uncertainty and demonstrates how the benefits of taking action against climate change outweigh the risks.
3.5 Introduction to Ecosystem Services and Markets for Ecosystem Services
3.5.1 Introduction to Ecosystem Services and Markets for Ecosystem Services
3.5.2 Video: Measuring Ecosystem Services
This video from Silvacom and Green Analytics in Alberta, Canada explains what ecosystem services are and how they are measured.
3.5.3 Video: Payment for Ecosystem Services: The REDD Initiative
World Bank representative, Stefano Pagiola, explains the REDD initiative during the e-Parliament hearing on climate change and forests in Costa Rica. June 2009.
3.6 Introduction to REDD+
3.6.1 Introduction to REDD+
3.7 Bioenergy and the Forest
3.7.1 Bioenergy and the Forest
3.8 Effective Communication in Climate Change
3.8.1 Effective Communication in Climate Change
3.8.2 Video: Tim Jackson: An economic reality check
As the world faces recession, climate change, inequity and more, Tim Jackson delivers a piercing challenge to established economic principles, explaining how we might stop feeding the crises and start investing in our future.
3.8.3 Video: LUCCi - Land-use and climate change interactions in the Vu Gia
Land-use and climate change interactions in the Vu Gia Thu Bon River Basin, Central Vietnam.
